With the Internet form getting better, Lin Weidong also began to reconsider the way out of hao123.

Now there are two ways in front of Lin Weidong, one is to continue to hold hao123, but the prospect is unknown, and the other is to sell it at a high price, directly realize it, and have a large amount of money.

Just as Lin Weidong was hesitating, Li Yanhong began to send lobbyist Liu Jiping to persuade Lin Weidong and made it clear to him that he wanted to buy hao123.

At this time, Li Yanhong's ferry had already begun to prepare for the listing, and only then did he send someone to negotiate the acquisition with Lin Weidong.

After the meeting, Liu Jiping proposed to Lin Weidong to acquire Lin Weidong's hao123 in the form of 5 million cash + equity.

Faced with Liu Jiping's acquisition conditions, Lin Weidong didn't think about it, so he directly refused: "Mr. Liu, your ferry is too insincere, you want to buy us hao123 for this money, and your boss will underestimate me Lin Weidong too much." ”

Liu Jiping saw Lin Weidong's tough attitude, and said with a smile: "Mr. Lin, we can sit down and talk about the price slowly." ”

Lin Weidong thought for a while and said, "If you really want to buy it, you will need at least 80 million cash." ”

Liu Jiping smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Mr. Lin, with all due respect, your offer is really a bit excessive, and I believe that no company can accept it." ”

Lin Weidong was not annoyed, and said to him with a smile: "Mr. Liu, since you ferry does not accept my offer, then we should not talk about the acquisition." ”

Liu Jiping also smiled and nodded: "What Mr. Lin said is right, business is not benevolent and righteous, you and I have met once, it is fate, we don't need to hurt the harmony for this matter." ”

In fact, before the departure from the ferry company, Li Yanhong gave him a negotiation bottom line of 10 million in cash, but Liu Jiping never imagined that Lin Weidong actually directly offered an acquisition fee of 80 million.

Obviously, the price proposed by Lin Weidong far exceeded Li Yanhong's expectations and Liu Jiping's ability.

After Liu Jiping returned to the ferry, he told Li Yanhong what Lin Weidong told him in 1510.

Li Yanhong was fiddling with the phalaenopsis orchid in the office, and after listening to Liu Jiping's words, he couldn't help but smile and sighed: "This college student is much more greedy than I imagined." ”

Liu Jiping asked Li Yanhong: "Mr. Li, what should we do now? Do you want to continue to talk to him?"

After pondering for a moment, Li Yanhong said: "80 million is impossible, at most 20 million." ”

Liu Jiping nodded, and then asked: "If it's 20 million, he still won't accept it?"

Li Yanhong waved his hand: "If he can be indifferent to the 20 million, then let's ignore him first, I don't believe it, there will be someone who can pay a higher price than me." ”

As a result, Liu Jiping came to discuss the acquisition with Lin Weidong for the second time, and offered a price of 20 million, but Lin Weidong still refused.

In fact, Lin Weidong didn't expect Li Yanhong to be willing to take out 80 million cash and shares to buy his hao123.

For Lin Weidong, his minimum requirement is 30 million in cash, not the 80 million he proposed.

Lin Weidong's request of 80 million is also to give himself more room for bargaining.

When Wang Taoxin learned that Lin Weidong rejected the offer of 20 million ferries, she felt very sorry and sad.

For Wang Taoxin, let alone 20 million, it is 2 million, which is also an astronomical amount for him.

Wang Taoxin shook his head and sighed: "Weidong, that's 20 million, if you can sell it, you are already a multimillionaire!"

Lin Weidong said with a smile: "The times are different, the 10,000 households used to be very good, and now the multimillionaires are not much greater." ”

Wang Taoxin sighed and said worriedly: "Weidong, what if the ferry sees that you refuse to sell, and you go back and build a navigation website by yourself and compete with us?"

Lin Weidong said: "It's not that easy, navigating a website is not something that can be done with money, if it were really that easy, Li Yanhong would not have spent 20 million to acquire hao123." ”

Although the plan to acquire hao123 was unsuccessful, Lin Weidong's close contact with the ferry soon attracted the attention of Gu Yongqiang, president of Sohu.

Gu Yongqiang, as the president of Sohu and the number one general next to the boss Zhang Chaoyang, is by no means an idle person.

Born in 1966, Koo is a native of Hong Kong and received his bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley and his MBA from Stanford University.

He also studied at the University of New South Wales in Sydney and Peking University.

As early as 1998, Gu Yongqiang began to pay attention to the Internet, and it was at that time that Gu Yongqiang met Zhang Chaoyang.

In August of that year, in the café on the first floor of the Beijing International Hotel.

Zhang Chaoyang drank coffee, and Gu Yongqiang drank tea.

Originally, Zhang Chaoyang wanted to persuade him to invest in Sohu.com, but after talking for a while, he said to Gu Yongqiang: "Gu Yongqiang, I don't want your investment anymore, you come and help me." ”

At that time, Zhang Chaoyang needed someone to help him with financing, Zhang Chaoyang was a doctor of physics, and Gu Yongqiang was from the capital circle.

Gu Yongqiang is more familiar with the rules of the game and contacts in the capital circle, and Gu Yongqiang has also done the Internet, so it is a good match.

Soon, Gu Yongqiang became the first executive of Sohu with his excellent performance, and was the senior vice president and CFO, at that time, there were only about 100 people in Sohu, and the highest position other than Zhang Chaoyang was the director.

At the beginning of Sohu, Koo focused on financing.

After Sohu went public in 2000, Gu Yongqiang proposed to do operations.

Zhang Chaoyang and the board of directors were very tolerant of Gu Yongqiang in this regard, and also gave him a lot of freedom.

In 2001, Koo Yongqiang began to take over the operation, including corporate development, sales, marketing, products and so on.

In July 2001, Koo became the chief operating officer, and by the beginning of 2002, Koo was already the president of Sohu.

Therefore, in today's Sohu company, no matter how big or small, Gu Yongqiang is almost all

Seeing Lin Weidong getting closer and closer to the ferry, Zhang Chaoyang, who was a fox, did not feel threatened, but Gu Yongqiang, the president of Sohu, couldn't sit still, and proposed the idea of acquiring hao123 with the boss Zhang Chaoyang.

Zhang Chaoyang said to him contemptuously: "Yongqiang, hao123 is a kind of thing, I can make it in two weeks with a random college student, and it is definitely better than him." ”

In fact, a few years ago, when Ma Huateng wanted to sell QQ500,000 to him, Zhang Chaoyang also said something similar.

Seeing Zhang Chaoyang's contempt for hao123, Gu Yongqiang said earnestly: "Mr. Zhang, you underestimate hao123 too much, you may not know that hao123's ranking on Alex has entered the top 100 in the world!"

Zhang Chaoyang said disapplausively: "Even if hao123 ranks first in the world, what can it do? Let me tell you, the Internet drainage in the future will be the world of search engines." ”

"Now that we have Google and Ferry in China, outdated navigation sites like hao123 will be eliminated sooner or later, and if we buy it back, it won't be long before it will rot in our own hands. ”

After pondering for a moment, Gu Yongqiang said: "Mr. Zhang, I personally think that we don't have to buy hao123 back like Ferry, we can raise the price so that those websites of Ferry can't buy it." ”

Zhang Chaoyang smiled and exclaimed: "Yongqiang, your idea is good, we can use this method to let him sway from side to side and slowly drag it to death." ”

Gu Yongqiang nodded, and then said: "Mr. Zhang, in order to show the sincerity of our Sohu, I think you should talk to him in person, if you can come forward in person, the credibility will be higher." ”

Zhang Chaoyang pondered for a while, and also felt that this method was feasible, so he said: "Okay, you send me an invitation letter and ask him to come to Beijing in two days, I have a party, invite him to play together." ”

As the saying goes, born in sorrow and die in peace.

Since Sohu went public, Zhang Chaoyang no longer struggled as he did in the early days of his business, but began to enjoy his life.

It can't be said that it is a night and night song, but it is also a frequent entertainment occasion, in addition, Zhang Chaoyang often has parties, sings K or something, and occasionally invites female stars to attend events.

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